“…through the years I’ve learned what all Hollywood survivors must learn to remain survivors. You learn that you aren’t working with people, you’re working with egos – and they’re working with yours. Once you learn that, you start taking all the slings and arrows less personally. You understand that they come with the territory. After all, you’re not dealing with store clerks and bank tellers and toll takers, who do their job, and pack up and go home at the end of the day. You’re dealing with an assortment of artists and con men and combinations of them – very powerful people, whose power nevertheless hangs by the thinnest of threads.”

– An excerpt from Joe’s autobiography, “My Life in ‘toons.”

The above quote is directly related to an experience Joe had with Gene’s ego. Check out the book for more.